Last week I recommended Turner Classic Movies’ broadcast of the under appreciated Fat City (1972) . It’s the story of boxer on the slide who inspires a kid to become a boxer on the rise. Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell give dead-on performances as pathetic sad sack barflies. Tyrrell was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Sadly, Susan Tyrell died on Saturday.
In this wonderful 2000 profile in LA Weekly, Tyrell said, “The last thing my mother said to me was, ‘SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.’ I’ve always liked that, and I’ve always tried to live up to it.”